Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Add transparency support for LightmapGI Currently when baking lightmaps users have to choose between transparent objects casting shadows as if they were fully opaque, or not casting shadows at all. This has been a major limitation in both the quality of lightmap baking and the ergonomics of the lightmap baking workflow.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow. The get_node() function also got syntactic sugar to obtain nodes in the local scene tree by writing less code, using the $ alias.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. Those now come with support for attractors, collision , trails , sub-emitters and manual emission. This included adding new collision shapes, cylinder and heightmap , as well as re-implementing SoftBody nodes. Gui and Text.

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Beta Engineering Engine Feature 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

If a hash collision occurs then the elements will be chained in a linked-list kind of manner. If a collision occurs then the next free spot will be used. If a collision occurs then the next free spot will be used. This makes lookups more memory local. Done May 2018. enviroment relections. cubemap filtering. omni lights.

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